Never Forget Your Name. Alwin Meyer
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Название: Never Forget Your Name

Автор: Alwin Meyer

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Историческая литература

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isbn: 9781509545520

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СКАЧАТЬ murdered in the countries invaded by Nazi Germany, by German ‘Einsatzgruppen’ and ‘Einsatzkommandos’ (mobile killing units), but also by Wehrmacht units. According to the United States Holocaust Museum, 1.3 million Jews were shot by Wehrmacht and SS units or killed in gas trucks on the territory of the former Soviet Union alone: United States Holocaust Museum, Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution | The Holocaust Encyclopedia (ushmm.org).

      5  5 Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Auschwitz-Birkenau, p. 12 (prepared by Piper).

      6  6 Helena Kubica, Geraubte Kindheit – In Auschwitz befreite Kinder [Stolen Childhood: Children Liberated in Auschwitz] (Oświęcim, October 2021), pp. 7, 59. Altogether, 400,000 babies, children and women were registered in Auschwitz, including over 23,500 children and juveniles, almost all of whom were murdered.

      7  7 Ibid., pp. 17, 33, 64.

      8  8 Helena Kubica, Pregnant Women and Children in Auschwitz (Oświęcim 2010), p. 13; see also George M. Weisz and Konrad Kwiet, ‘Managing Pregnancy in Nazi Concentration Camps: The Role of Two Jewish Doctors’, in Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal (Israel), 9.3 (July 2018).

      9  9 Alwin Meyer, Mama, ich höre dich – Mütter, Kinder und Geburten in Auschwitz (Göttingen 2021), pp. 104–62.

      This book could not have been written without the cooperation and willingness to provide information of the following:

      Herbert Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

      Yehuda Bacon, Jerusalem, Israel

      Halina Birenbaum, Herzliya, Israel

      Robert Büchler, Lahavot Haviva, Israel

      Gábor Hirsch, Esslingen, Switzerland

      Lydia Holznerová, Prague, Czech Republic

      Krzysztof J., Poland and Germany

      Otto Klein, Geneva, Switzerland

      Kola Klimczyk, Kraków, Poland

      Josif Konvoj, Vilnius, Lithuania

      Eduard Kornfeld, Zurich, Switzerland

      Heinz Salvator Kounio, Thessaloniki, Greece

      Géza Kozma, Budapest, Hungary

      Ewa Krcz-Siezka, Poland

      Vera Kriegel, Dimona, Israel

      Dasha Lewin, Los Angeles, USA

      Dagmar Lieblová, Prague, Czech Republic

      Channa Loewenstein, Yad Hanna, Israel

      Israel Loewenstein, Yad Hanna, Israel

      Mirjam M., Tel Aviv, Israel

      Jack Mandelbaum, Naples, FL, USA

      Angela Orosz-Richt, Montreal, Canada

      Hanka Paszko, Katowice, Poland

      Anna Polshchikova, Yalta, Ukraine

      Lidia Rydzikowska-Maksymowicz, Kraków, Poland

      Adolph Smajovich-Goldenberg, Bilky, Ukraine

      Olga Solomon, Haifa, Israel

      Jiří Steiner, Prague, Czech Republic

      William Wermuth, Konstanz, Germany

      Barbara Wesołowska, Będzin, Poland

      I give them my thanks for their trust and hospitality.

      I was first inspired to investigate the lives of the children of Auschwitz by Tadeusz Szymański (Oświęcim, Poland) in 1972. I am particularly grateful to him for setting up initial contacts and providing advice and documents.

      The following offered information and indispensable assistance in putting this book together:

      Heinz Salvator Kounio enjoyed his life as a young boy. He loved his parents, his sister Erika, who was a year older than him, and his grandparents. Of course, there were things he didn’t like so much: the disputes with boys in the neighbourhood or with classmates in the school yard. But in retrospect they were trivial.

      Thessaloniki – also known as Saloniki, Salonika (Judeo-Spanish), Selanik (Turkish) or Solun (Bulgarian/Macedonian/Serbian) – the second-largest city in Greece, where he lived, fascinated him and promised a good life for a Jewish boy. Until he was 11.1

      At the age of just 24, his father Salvator Kounio had opened a small photo supply shop. That was in 1924. He sold СКАЧАТЬ